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The Johns ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ will receive one of 14 new research and training grants awarded by the of the and its partners to combat the growing incidence of tobacco-caused illness and death in the developing world. The combined financial commitment from FIC and its NIH partners is approximately $3.8 million for the first year of the five-year awards. Total support will be approximately $20.5 million over the next five years. 

, professor and chair of the and director of the , and his colleagues at the Johns ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ will collaborate with partners conducting tobacco-control research and training programs at the Chinese Academy of Medicine, the National Cancer Institute of Brazil, and the National Institute for Public Health in Mexico. These programs will focus on an intervention in China to reduce women and children's secondhand smoke exposure at home; a survey on determinants of youth smoking in Brazil; and a study of smoking-attributable deaths and diseases and the associated costs of smoking-related diseases in Mexico. The program will also train future tobacco control leaders in these countries and in Southeast Asia.